GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy |